His is a special case as he bought new and obviously could afford to. But then you get 2nd owners who buy that car for 45-50k as they couldn't afford it new, or even a couple years later when they cost even less. Sadly parts prices won't have gone down the same, and the likelyhood of needing them has gone up.
Am i the only one really disliking SUVs?
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But can I get it with 16" wheels?
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15” standard … but 16” on up exponentially priced options …
there is even a grey sidewall option for Overkill
Fuel injection is okay, but only TBI. No fancy port injection, that's just more to go wrong.
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Thinking drums in the rear will be more reliable ?
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Good one … she’s shaping up into a Crown jewel
You guys mocking us cheapskates? I can't quite tell... 
carburettors that only work well in a narrow rpm range, and then only as long as they are kept clean and tuned. More expensive carburettors were better but harder to tune. Engine life really went up when (for europe anyway) fuel injection became the norm. People considered an engine with 100k km dead or dying when I was a kid...
Yeah, I had a car in the 80's that had a carburetor, missed it by 2 years before they had fuel injection. Car was done when it had around 80-90k, kept having to adjust the carburetor and toward the end it never quite ran right.
I think back in WWII, the T-34 tanks were only good for around 200 miles, they used to strap a spare engine to the back of the tank. I think the German ones were a little better, but about 10% would be out after 200 miles. They were considered washed up after 8k.
Could be, I seem to remember B17 bombers lasted 40 hours on average, so that's maybe 3-4 flights from Britain to Germany? No need to put money in making stuff last at those attrition rates.
A lot of people like to think this, but in general on the MB forums people either buy an extended warranty or they come asking for help but they don't really get rid of the cars. The only time that really seems to happen is when they buy the lemon years like the 2006 E-350 which had the bad balance shafts and they don't want to spend 5-7k on the engine repair, but even now, you could probably do it for 2-3k as the price of used engines have come down along with the cost of the car.
I saw something similar to this recently. The deluxe model I'm thinkin'
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^^and you can cut bait on it^^
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My experience hasn't borne out your conjecture. How many vehicles have you actually personally piloted to north of 150,000 miles? How many vehicles do you have direct experience and regular contact with that have made it to north of 150,000 miles?
I've driven four vehicles to that mileage:
1. 1997 Ford Explorer
2. 2002 Ford Expedition
3. 1989 Lincoln Town Car
4. 1987 Mustang GT T-Top
Of the group, the most needy was the Explorer. Two transmissions, two transfer cases and the gas mileage was roughly the same as the Expedition. It also needed an alternator, U-joints, front hubs and probably some other things I'm forgetting. As a university student, putting hubs in it was very expensive, let's not get started on the price of getting the trans and t-case done.
Least expensive would have been the Lincoln. Panther cars are notoriously low TCO, and it was no exception.
As I've noted before, we have a small fleet of RAM 1500's at work, a large number of them well north of 150,000 miles. They are all newer than your age cut-off, being 2011-2012 vintage for the most part and two 2014's (along with two DT's now). They've all needed: brakes, tires and the exhaust manifold studs replaced. I believe most are still on their original batteries. That's it. Lower TCO than any of my older Ford vehicles. They all still have the original water pumps, alternators, U-joints, hubs, rads, the AC still works....etc. Rust Check every year, the bodies on them are great too.
Literally the polar opposite of "needing a lot of repairs".
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We'd probably need to secure pre-orders. I expect we can get @AutoMechanic to sign on if we can guarantee the level of decontenting will meet his requirements.
I'm with you, much prefer sedans, hatchbacks and don't care for turbos, but manufacturers are in a bind, if they didn't put a turbo in no one would buy the cars as they are dogs, if they explained how to drive & maintain a turbo no one would buy it, so they give unrealistic maintenance schedule and performance all in the name of fuel economy.
For some reason it feels like automechanic is a reborn StevieC.
Just can't put my finger on why....
Just can't put my finger on why....
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